Former N'Syncer Lance Bass, who was
forced to reveal that he's gay in 2006, has called the outing
“tacky.”
The 32-year-old Bass acknowledged the
rumors of his sexuality in a People magazine cover story.
During an appearance on cabler OWN's
The Rosie Show, Bass said
that Perez Hilton gets the credit for outing him “because he had
the biggest site at the time.”
“There's always
been rumbles and I knew that. And I knew at some point I was going
to be able to publicly admit it. Even though I didn't think it was
anyone's business. But, unfortunately, that's just the world we live
in, you have to admit it.”
“My family didn't
know. So, of course, I wanted to come out to my family first, before
I came out to the world. It went out of hand a little bit because it
went a lot faster than I wanted it to go.”
Bass added that he
experienced panic over the rumors.
“I
did. There's been so much written about me in all kinds of different
magazines that were not true that I didn't think that anyone would
really believe it. But, people really started hounding on me and
trying to catch me and my boyfriend [the A-List's
Reichen Lehmkuhl] together. And I was living with my boyfriend. We
were in love and so we were publicly going to places, and I wasn't
hiding it to my friends and family. So, I knew eventually it was
going to happen, but I think the way that they did it was really
tacky.” (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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